Questions for Friedman & Alexander DEBATE: UFO secrecy
train, I don't buy it it for one second. Let's go through this step by step.
Ok, sounds like a good idea.
If aliens are still coming here and we're able to detect them, and we haven't got some undisclosed diplomatic agreement with them, there are no doubt operational procedures within the institutions for tracking and intercepting them.
What are the assumptions here? Aliens have visited Earth in the past. Aliens are visiting now.
These are both large assumptions that are impossilbe to support. While they are both well within the realm of possiblity, we (or at least I don't) have enough evidence to positively identify the origin of Unidentified Flying Objects as being extra-terrestial, extra-solar, or extra-dimensional for that matter.
Aliens are purely speculative at this point. That there are Unidentified Flying Objects of apparent artifical origin operating under intelligent control within our controled airspaces is about far as it is safe to go with it.
Therefore those institutions are going to both care and investigate ( pursue ). When they do, there are going to be follow up procedures ... debriefings, reports etc, and that means somebody has to to initiate and follow up on them. What do you think is going to happen after they send an inteceptor after a UFO? Is the pilot just going to park his Lightning and go back to playing video games? Business as usual? Hey guys it was nothing ... just another UFO chase? There is just no way you can expect anyone to believe that.
You have obviously studied the history of UFOs. There are numerous acccounts of what happens and what some of the procedures are, you tell me what generally occurs. It seems to vary all the way from people being reassigned to different bases and told not to talk to them staring in a documentary about the incident.
It is a large assumption that anyone fulfiling a role with a specific job classificaiton follows up on UFOs beyond their realm of operational necessity. While I agree there should be an Office of Unidentifed Arial Phenomena there apparently isn't. NSA, NRO, CIA, and OSI all have expressed interest in the UFOs and have functions that would logically put such things within their scope of operations. However, how that interest is expressed within the context of their responsibiities and budgets probably doesn't match up with what we think it should be. I think its obvious that it doesn't.
...keep tabs...They spend billions of dollars on space surveillance, detection and monitoring ... but Alexander would have you believe they just ignore the UFOs because that would cost a little extra? I'm sorry but that's just plain ludicrous.
Individuals fullfilling specfic job roles generally do very little outside of their job descriptions and budgets. Alexander is telling us this is how it works in these agencies and branches of military as well. It makes perfect sense from an economic and beaucratic sense if not a purely military or strategic one as we might imagine those things to be.
His point isn't that they ignore them at all. His point is they don't care about them. On operational levels they are dealt with as needed but there is no over-arching inter-agency funded effort concentrating on figuring UFOs out that he could find. His conclusions are based on his experinece and knowledge of how things work. But honestly now, because what he says isn't what you want to believe doesn't mean it isn't based on the best information available to him and by extention us.
...If UFOs ( alien craft ) are still visiting Earth, then the defense departments of all nations on Earth will be in on monitoring and investigating them and hoping to be the first in on the catch ... including the USA. Imagine the significance of letting the other guys get there first! If Alexander expects us to believe that the defense agencies know about UFOs but have no coordinated effort built into their procedures for dealing with them, he must really underestimate the ability of people to think for themselves. Of course he was part of that mind control stuff ... so I suppose that wouldn't be surprising.
A bunch of ifs, assumptions, and speculations not the least of which that these things have been Identifed.They have not.
You also assume that individuals are thinking for themselves in these situations. They aren't. They are governed by procedure, budgets, and their own spheres of concern and control in highly regulated environments.